An Analysis of Linux Scalability to Many Cores (2010) [pdf]

http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs240/readings/analysis-linux-scalability.pdf

by yankcrime • 13 years ago

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kryps• 13 years ago

This study is from 2010 (Linux kernel 2.6.35-rc5).

buster• 13 years ago

Yes, i am wondering how much this holds true with a recent kernel. Still interesting though!

synctext• 13 years ago

Love how this is old MIT work, with HN pointing to "stanford.edu"

xtacy• 13 years ago

The conference talk video is up here: https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi10/analysis-linux-scal...

miga• 13 years ago

Nothing newer on the topic? Given that 64-core nodes have become standard in high performance computing, and there are talks about 100s of cores on a single chip, the research may benefit from revision.

shmerl2• 13 years ago

illumos kernel is known to scale better.

asdfs• 13 years ago

Any references?

shmerl2• 13 years ago

I'm not sure if anyone made a strict quantitative analysts. This is what I remember reading: http://gdamore.blogspot.com/2010/02/scalability-fud.html

flatfilefan• 13 years ago

I have just upgraded from AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ to AMD FX 8350 Eight-Core 4GHz, the Handbrake video compression FPS went from 10 to 120-300. This makes for almost linear boost for GHz and number of cores.

An Analysis of Linux Scalability to Many Cores (2010) [pdf]

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